Dates
- Cover date
- May 1951
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- I Loved the Wrong Man! · 5 pages
Karen’s fiancée, architect Dick, is ruined when a bridge he built collapses; he flees to South America. Tony, who loves Karen, confesses to altering the bridge plans. Karen finds Dick in South America but he has a local girlfriend now, and says Tony didn’t change the plans, he did. Karen returns to the USA and Tony’s love.
- The Secret of Gladys Greer! · 6 pages
Nurse Gladys is engaged to Brock, but her long-lost father returns and blackmails her. Mr. Greer is injured in an auto accident and Brock performs a delicate operation to save his life. It turns out the older man had an existing brain problem that is also cured by the surgery, and he becomes a kind and decent father to Gladys.
- It All Came True · 1.67 pages
- I Was Afraid To Love! · 6 pages
Barbara leaves the orphanage where she grew up and is hired at a department store. She’s befriended by Eliot, the boss, but pestered by fellow worker Alex and insulted by Marcia. Eliot says he loves her, but Barbara is inexperienced and confused. Alex advises her to confront her fears: she does, and will wed Eliot.
- When Tragedy Strikes! · 5 pages
Hazel’s mother tells her the story of her grandmother Jane in 1880s London. Janet gets a job as a shopgirl and falls in love with Charles, but she’s actually Jane, suspected of poisoning her own father in Cornwall. Charles proves it was her sister who facilitated their father’s suicide. Jane and Charles married, moved to the USA, and lived happily ever after.
Reprinted in
Intimate Confessions (1951)